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Interview no. | R-0746 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | R.42. Special Research Projects: West Southern Pines, N.C. |
Project description | This is a collection of interviews conducted in 1982 by Nancy O. Mason of Southern Pines, North Carolina with residents of part of Southern Pines which used to be its own, predominantly Black township in the 1920s, called West Southern Pines. West Southern Pines was annexed back into Southern Pines in the 1930s, but the twenty-six interviews attest to the longevity of the West Southern Pines community. Both black and white residents of West Southern Pines tell their recollections of the incorporation of West Southern Pines and the daily lives of its inhabitants. |
Date | 4 June 1982 |
Interviewee | Brokenbrough, Gertrude H. (1929-2012) |
Interviewee occupation | Civic leaders |
Interviewee DOB | 1920 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Mason, Nancy. |
Abstract | Gertrude Brokenbrough, originally from the area between Vass and Carthage, N.C., discusses first coming to Southern Pines around 1932, which felt like a big city. More specifically, she would visit “Lost City”, which the interviewer points out is the area just between West Southern Pines and Pinehurst. Brokenbrough’s grandfather had a big farm, and used to host corn shucking and Saturday night fish fries, and dances. Brokenbrough states that in the early 1950s in West Southern Pines, “Everybody knew everybody and felt that it was a much better place to live than it is now.” She describes growing up in the church, and her Aunt Charlie Mae’s notable kindness to everyone in the church community and beyond. Brokenbrough has been active in the Civic Club since the 1960s, and describes the central place of the Civic Club in the lives of the West Southern Pines community. This interview was conducted by Nancy Mason for the Town of Southern Pines on June 4, 1982. It is part of a series of interviews with people who lived in or around West Southern Pines as it had existed as a separate and entirely African American municipality from 1923 to 1931. |
Subject Geographic | Southern Pines (N.C.) |
Citation | Interview with Gertrude Brokenbrough by Nancy Mason, 4 June 1982, R-0746, in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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